Legendary tabla player dies at 73
Zakir Hussain, one of the world’s greatest tabla players, has died at the age of 73.
The Indian classical music icon died of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a lung disease, at a hospital in San Francisco, his family said in a statement.
Hussain is a four-time Grammy Award winner and recipient of India’s second-highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan.
The son of tabla master Ustad Alla Rakha Khan, Hussain was a child prodigy who gave his first concert at the age of seven.
